Already a favorite podcasting solution for personal websites, Podbean moves into the business sector with two affordable podcasting packages for companies and organizations.

Building upon its popular offering of unmetered bandwidth and growing monthly storage space, Podbean has also incorporated some powerful analysis and marketing tools to allow businesses and non-profit organizations to jump on the podcasting bandwagon.

With a Podbean account, you can seamlessly integrate podcasts into your existing website or blog so there’s no major overhaul required to broaden your Internet presence. And with the familiar blog-like interface, becoming a podcasting master is a snap.Podbean users also enjoy the ability to maintain multiple podcasts for multiple audiences. This gives even the smallest business the ability to track their performance and fine-tune their podcasting efforts.

This one-stop-shop approach combines publishing tools with reporting, syndication and management features in two affordable packages for easy podcast deployment and both packages also include the unique ability to “private podcast” - a subscription-based service that allows users to broadcast only to select audiences such as internal departments or target markets. Podbean business users can also delegate their podcasting efforts through the multiple administrators and authors feature, making it easier than ever to launch a successful podcasting campaign.

It is our great pleasure to announce the second version of podcast stats now is available in Podbean.com.

This is a powerful, comprehensive and visualized statistics system with a single interface for podcasters to understand how their content is being consumed. It comes with a fully dimension view of episode hits, subscribers and site visitors.

Episode Hits gives publishers a bird’s-eye view into the performance of each episode. More precisely, different type of reach will be categorized into three areas: feed, download and streaming. Feed reflects the number of times your content is fetched via a subscribed Feed; Download is the number of times that your content files are downloaded directly through the web; While streaming is the number of times that your content files are played online in your podcast site or via embedded players.

Subscribers provides an approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It’s based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Another good news is our stats filter system will filter out requests from browsers or bots to give you a more reliable results.

Site Visitors, as it’s called, gives the number of visitors to your podcast site. To prevent any type of fake or redundant data, any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Here are some screenshots:

There’s been a small but important change to the subscribe widget that a new popular podcatcher “zune” has been added, thus from now on your visitors have one more choice of subscription.

Hope you like it.